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Sherry Bogard, acclaimed statewide last year for heading up an outstanding reading program at Shelby County Library, has been fired from her position, and she wants her job back.

Bogard, who was dismissed by Executive Director Pam Federspiel in a decision upheld during a meeting Tuesday of the library’s board of directors, said she was fired without cause, but she wouldn’t elaborate on any legal response she might be considering.

When you set aside handling ordinances and reviewing sewer plans related to a proposed outlet mall off Buck Creek Road, the agenda for the Simpsonville City Commission on Wednesday dealt with closing the books on several key items.

The Shelby County Fair Horse Show, which gets under way tonight at the Shelby County Fairgrounds, is shaping up to be one of the biggest in a long time.

“For the number of years I’ve been manager, I think this will be the biggest one we’ve seen,” R.H. Bennett said on Tuesday while he was trying to juggle stalls to fit all the need for boarding horses overnight. “We have people coming in from Georgia, Chicago, Evansville and other places. Of course, ninety percent of our competitors come from here in the county.”

The Shelby County Fiscal Court agreed at its meeting on Tuesday to try out a new way to tackle its management needs, with a little help from a national company with a local presence.

County maintenance supervisor Denny Bailey told magistrates that a North Carolina-based company, Facility Dude, established in 2007, offers a new approach to helping both governments and businesses manage maintenance issues and save money.

It costs $2,057 per year to use the company’s service, but the first year will be free for the fiscal court, courtesy of Johnson Controls,

There may at last be hope for 7-month-old Addison Miles in her battle against cancer.

Just days before a bone marrow donor drive on Sunday at Shelby Christian Church – which drew more than 400 people for the bone-marrow registry – her family learned the fantastic news that there are two near-perfect matches for Miles, who has a form of leukemia.

This school year ended with three-fourths of Shelby County grade school students reading on or above grade level – or you might say that 25 percent left school for the summer lagging behind.

That was the gist of the latest MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) report by Chief Academic Officer/Deputy Superintendent Lisa Smith told members of the Shelby County School Board at their meeting Thursday night.

The board, including Superintendent James Neihof, expressed disappointment that those numbers were not higher.

Movement of an overweight/overdimensional “super load” of equipment from a dock in Louisville to a plant outside Harrodsburg will require temporary closure of some traffic routes in Shelby County starting tonight.

A new state law that went into effect last week makes it mandatory for drivers to keep their auto insurance up to date – and be able to prove it.

The Department of Insurance in Frankfort now are requiring insurance companies to report policies that have been terminated by drivers.

State officials say that notices will be sent to owners of vehicles for which continuous coverage is not verified, and those owners will be given 30 days to establish coverage or to present proof of coverage.